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International Perspectives on Women and HIV by Samuel A. MacMaster 9780415852289
RRP: $56.75$49.59Throughout the world, the threat of HIV/AIDS to women's health has become the focus of increased concern. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2004) reports that almost 20 million women and girls are living with HIV globally, accounting for... -
The Power of Connection: Recent Developments in Relational-Cultural Theory Judith Jordan (Harvard Medical School, USA) 9780415850131
RRP: $67.07$58.30Relational-Cultural theory (RCT) proposes that all people grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan. RCT challenges prevailing theories that depict the "separate self" as the hallmark of maturity. Rather than movement toward autonomy... -
Psychosocial Impact of Lupus: Social Work's Role and Function by Nancy L. Beckerman 9780415816519
RRP: $49.01$43.06With Lupus affecting more than 1.5 million Americans, predominantly women of childbearing age, there are many complex psychosocial challenges for the health care provider, the patient and the family. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the... -
Professional Issues in Child and Youth Care Practice Kiaras Gharabaghi (Ryerson University, Canada) 9780415518222
RRP: $67.07$58.30This book provides an overview of the core professional issues in the field of child and youth care practice. The author explores themes ranging from relationships and the exploration of Self to career building and field-specific approaches to management... -
Sexuality, Health and Human Rights by Sonia Correa 9780415351171
RRP: $174.15$151.81This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing... -
Social Care with African Families in the UK by Viola Nzira 9780415482936
RRP: $46.43$40.88This important text promotes understanding of the complexities and diversities of African family life. It stimulates creative thinking about how social care professionals can develop meaningful relationships and engage confidently and effectively with... -
Trauma and Physical Health: Understanding the effects of extreme stress and of psychological harm by Victoria L. Banyard 9780415480789
RRP: $174.15$151.29Trauma research and clinical practice have taught us much about the widespread problems of child maltreatment, partner violence, and sexual assault. Numerous investigations have documented links between such trauma exposure and long-term negative mental... -
Studying the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services: A Reader by Pauline Allen 9780415340717
RRP: $154.80$134.17Research into the delivery and organisation of health care is a vital component in the improvement of health services. A wide range of disciplines and methods needs to be deployed to address research questions in this field. This unique reader brings... -
Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion by Michael Fitzpatrick 9780415449809
RRP: $174.15$151.29Autism: disease, disorder or difference? What causes autism - genes or environment? Can biomedical treatments cure autism, and are they safe? An increased public awareness of autism has resulted in a rising trend of diagnoses, creating the... -
Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families: Building Secure New Lives Liza Bingley Miller (Child and Family Training, UK) 9780415409452
RRP: $46.43$40.88Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book gives helpful guidance on making evidence-based assessments and planning successful adoption support. Key... -
Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Change Rosalind Edwards 9780415427128
RRP: $51.59$45.23Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and particularly how they have been affected by social and economic developments. But how can we think about... -
Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression: Debates and Challenges by Barbara Fawcett 9780415422635
RRP: $174.15$151.29Everyone working in health and social care is at one point or another confronted by violent behaviour and its consequences. Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression provides a broad overview of violence in relation to a range of groups and areas that... -
Health and Social Research in Multiethnic Societies by James Y. Nazroo 9780415393652
RRP: $174.15$151.29This volume presents a ready source of information on the methodological issues facing research on ethnicity, which is highly relevant to a wide variety of health, economic and social issues in modern societies. Straightforward in its approach and... -
Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health by Mavis Kirkham 9780415383240
RRP: $174.15$151.81In this book, a team of international contributors examine bodies, leakage and boundaries, illuminating the contradictions and dilemmas in women's healthcare. Using the concept of pollution, this book highlights how women and health issues are... -
Mental Illness and the Body: Beyond Diagnosis by Louise Phillips 9780415383202
RRP: $116.09$100.74Using real life case studies of people experiencing mental illness, this book identifies how bodily presentation of patients may reflect certain aspects of their 'lived experience'. With reference to a range of theoretical perspectives including... -
Refugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon by Charles Watters 9780415383059
RRP: $174.15$151.81The last twenty years have seen unprecedented numbers of refugee children entering Western countries. Many of these children will have experienced the atrocities of war and issues concerning their care and treatment are high on the agenda of research... -
Pure Madness: How Fear Drives the Mental Health System by Jeremy Laurance 9780415369794
RRP: $174.15$151.29Public alarm for random attacks by mentally ill people is at an all-time high. The brutal killing of Jill Dando, the TV personality, and the assault on George Harrison, the former Beatle, are among the cases which have undermined confidence in the mental... -
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery: Towards a Critical Social Science by Jon Adams 9780415368469
RRP: $122.54$106.23This book explores the historical, social, political and cultural facets of integration between complementary and alternative medicine and nursing/midwifery. It examines the ever-expanding integration in relation to: the role and conceptualization... -
Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Jon Adams 9780415367745
RRP: $116.09$100.74Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine provides a valuable and timely resource for those looking to understand, initiate and expand CAM research. This collection brings together leading international CAM researchers with backgrounds and... -
Caesarean: Just Another Way of Birth? by Rosemary Mander 9780415401357
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book critically analyzes the place of caesarean in childbearing at the beginning of the twenty first century. It questions the changes that are taking place in childbirth and, in particular, the effects and implications of an increase in caesarean... -
Identity and Health by David Kelleher 9780415307918
RRP: $174.15$151.29Experiences of health and illness are fundamental to how we understand ourselves, and the postmodern obsession with body image has made health even more significant in identity formation. The study of subjective experiences of health and illness can also... -
New Qualitative Methodologies in Health and Social Care Research by Frances Rapport 9780415305648
RRP: $174.15$151.29This edited volume brings together innovative contributions from a range of health and social care professionals and research scientists who are interested in introducing new approaches to qualitative research into the world of health and social care. A... -
The Social Significance of Health Promotion by Theodore H. MacDonald 9780415301961
RRP: $174.15$151.29The Social Significance of Health Promotion sets health promotion in its historical context and delineates its contemporary role. It explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community. The book begins by... -
Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk and Automated Discrimination David Lyon 9780415278737
RRP: $58.04$50.67Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once... -
Childbirth in the Global Village: Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice Dawn Hillier 9780415275521
RRP: $41.27$36.55Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience?If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it?These are the questions at the heart of... -
Analysing Families: Morality and Rationality in Policy and Practice Alan Carling 9780415250405
RRP: $60.62$52.85While the family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy, much of the literature is concerned with describing the dramatic changes that are taking place. By contrast, Analysing Families directly addresses the social... -
Young People, Class and Place by Robert MacDonald 9780415567565
RRP: $174.15$151.29Under the weight of apparently growing consumer affluence, globalisation and post-modern social theory, many have proclaimed the declining significance of social class and place to young people's lives - and for social science. Drawing upon new,... -
Geriatric Rehabilitation: From Bedside to Curbside by K. Rao Poduri 9780367868802
RRP: $89.00$76.78Geriatric Rehabilitation addresses the fact that this is an age in which individuals have increasing longevity, better health care, education and expectations of health care which present new, increasing and even radical challenges to health care... -
Risk and Citizenship: Key Issues in Welfare by Rosalind Edwards 9780415241588
RRP: $174.15$151.29Contemporary welfare provision poses serious challenges for social policy. Large and rapid changes are said to be taking place in the way we live, work and relate to each other, characterised by anxiety and insecurity.Risk and Citizenship explores how... -
Nursing and The Experience of Illness: Phenomenology in Practice by Irena Madjar 9780415207829
RRP: $174.15$151.29Nursing and the Experience of Illness encourages nurses to reflect on the experience of their patients, in order to improve their practice and to develop an individualised approach to care. Vivid case studies present real nursing encounters and offer a... -
Managing Information and Knowledge in the Public Sector by Eileen Milner 9780415204231
RRP: $28.37$24.95For the public sector, which is globally the largest employer of people and repository of information, managing information and knowledge is an extremely problematic area to address. The essence of both resources is that they are intangible, their... -
Women's Health and Social Change by Ellen Annandale 9780415190862
RRP: $167.70$144.62Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap... -
Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State by Chris Jones 9780415182898
RRP: $174.15$151.81A forward-looking appraisal of the welfare state which examines issues such as poverty in Britain, demonisation of the poor in areas of social policy and other related topics.Book InformationISBN 9780415182898Author Chris JonesFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties Tim Booth 9780415166560
RRP: $60.62$52.85Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties uses a life-story approach to present new evidence about how children from such families manage the transition to adulthood, and about the longer-term outcomes of such an upbringing. It offers a view... -
Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective Mary Bradbury 9780415150224
RRP: $60.62$52.85Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of contemporary mortuary practices, Representations of Death takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death Going behind the scenes at hospitals, funeral... -
A Better World for Children?: Explorations in Morality and Authority by Michael King 9780415150170
RRP: $64.49$56.12By exploring such diverse issues as the management of child abuse, legal reforms following sex abuse enquiries, moral explanations for the actions of child murderers, the impossible task faced by social workers and the limitations of children's rights... -
Gender, Work and Tourism by M. Thea Sinclair 9780415109864
RRP: $60.62$52.85Gender, Work and Tourism examines the central role played by women in the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work and the ways in which tourism creates tensions between the attitude and conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behaviour of... -
Rethinking Prostitution: Purchasing Sex in the 1990s Graham Scambler 9780415102070
RRP: $67.07$58.30The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution. In contrast to the moral panic reaction of some sectors of society, very different initiatives are being displayed by other groups in relation to the need to scrutinize... -
Gendered Moods: Psychotropics and Society by Elizabeth Ettorre 9780415082143
RRP: $28.37$24.95Tranquillisers are prescribed to almost twice as many women as men, yet very little gender-based research has been carried out on the social context of their use. Gendered Moods offers the first feminist analysis of the gendered character of... -
The Meaning of Illness by Marc Auge 9780415001915
RRP: $174.15$151.81First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415001915Author Marc AugeFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 318g